This is one of my most favorite blog posts I\'ve ever written and it\'s all about me becoming a woman...well, kind of. Anyway, your comment made me think of it:
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Dee thank you so much for your honesty! I mean, seriously, your comment was beautiful in so many ways--I hope many people read it. There's no question in my mind that you not only 'get it' but that because of how long you've been dealing with this stuff I feel like you're someone who has so much in teach me! Thank you for your (albiet from a distance) advice, sensitivity, and compassion....though I do have to say that some of this was lost when you corrected my grammer (or is it grammar? I'd check but that'd just be too much work and it wouldn't be nearly as funny!). Seriously though, thank you so much for your kind and gracious words. I love that you read and comment, it means a lot.
Great comments! I added on facebook and throw it up here too 'cause I think its important to clarify that balance is most definitely important and as my friend Brent said in a message to me, there are many reasons why someone might not ask how someone else is doing and they don't all fall into the category of ignorance! At times people don't ask cause they're trying to be respectful or they're trying not to be 'that guy' (as one person said to me) or they're trying not to bug me (or whomever else they happen to be connecting with). Those are all great points and I think it further clarifies that I'm just pairing with one brush stroke here on a painting that deserves many colors.
How do you like that Jason? I'm now up to (including mine here) six comments! I'm getting so popular! I think I'm going to text you right now to see if we can't grab lunch next week. Thanks for always posting either thoughtful or awkward comments on my blogs. Love it dude!
Oh come on Michelle. Don't act like you don't already do all this! Ok, maybe you don't do wall murals in your work with families and students at Clark, but you most definitely use the arts and creative outlets to bring about beauty in the lives and worlds of those you with/for! What y'all do at the CFS program is inspirational to say the least--y'all not only talk about the value of every single child but you actually practice what it would look like to truly value children as people with dignity and deserving of respect. It's a beautiful thing.
Thank you for your kind words Dee. I have visited your blog, though I clearly need to spend more time there! What a neat gift we have these days to be connected and to be blessed by people from such a distance and from such varied walks of life.
Anyway, thank you again for reading, commenting, and for your writing on your own blog.
peace.
Thanks so much Donna. And thank you for the support you've been for us from a distance through my blog and Facebook. Your genuineness and authenticity shine through your words very clearly!
Ryan Woods I wish I would have waited to post this till today because there's so much more I want to say to the neighborhood! There's so much more I want to say about the design! There's just so much more to be said! Thank you all.
I fight you until you admit that you are lying.
Holy moly I've replied to this three times while sitting in random ride lines in Disneyland and each time it gets wiped away like my sins.
The gist of what I said three times over, is that I completely agree with you. Darkness, evil, etc. are all in and of themselves the absence of everything that is God. I think what I'm trying to work through in my blog (and, again, it's such a work in progress that I'm oddly typing in a public arena) is that I think there's some kind of difference between reality as it truly is and the framework that we choose to hold onto to communicate about or deal with that reality. I don't know. But I do know that I both like what I said and I agree with you Jpapa...so that's where I'm at right now...and I'm pretty sure that I said it much better when I was typing with my thumbs in the Splash Mountain line.
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